Packaging
Baker Perkins launches healthy snacks at ProSweets
Friday 02. January 2009 - New ranges of fruit-filled snacks
Baker Perkins is introducing process technology for new products that focus on the crucial issue of a healthy diet. These new ideas are highlighted at the ProSweets exhibition in Cologne, Germany, February 1 – 4 2009 (stand 10.1.E041).
Significant new ranges of fruit-filled snack that can be made with Baker Perkins co-extrusion systems are being introduced. Already proven in the breakfast cereal and savoury snack arena, the co-extrusion process encapsulates a filling of 100% real fruit or a fruit paste blend in a crispy wholegrain shell.
These bite size pieces are available as pillows, wafers or bars and provide a way to offer healthy, convenient snacks to customers looking for alternatives to conventional confectionery or savoury snacks.
They bring positive nutrition into the snack arena, while the selection of innovative shapes creates additional opportunities to combine them with coatings or dips to add further interest and variety.
Co-extruded fruit-filled snacks can be marketed to both children and adults as ‘good for you’, while still offering the taste and convenience that consumers demand in a snack product.
The concept involves combining two healthy products with completely different sensory properties to create a product that meets all the demands of modern snack consumers – tasty, convenient, healthy and varied. They use highly concentrated fruit pastes from Taura Natural Ingredients, who have worked closely with Baker Perkins on the development of these products.
The key to their appeal is the combination of an intense fruit flavour with a crunchy cereal. The low moisture activity of the Taura pastes ensures that the crispness of the shell is maintained so the products can be packed and distributed in a conventional, convenient format.
A range of shapes and textures is available, and there are many exciting possibilities for different flavour combinations of fruit fillings. For children this can be a successful introductory point of reference to both grains and fruit, while for adults the more exotic fruit flavours can be used as a marketing strategy.
The wafer and bar products can be bite size and positioned as snacks in their own right or made large enough to be sold as ‘dipping’ products e.g. with a low fat yoghurt or chocolate sauce.